Premiere Pro Lumetri: Color Correct like a Pro

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About This Course

Published 11/2015
English

Course Description

This complete course will take you to the essentials of color correction with the Lumetri color tools inside Premiere Pro. You will learn different techniques while also understanding how color philosophy works.

We'll fly together through this wonderful world of colors. And on the end you will be able to fix color issues and take your shots to a higher professional level.

What do I get?

5 introduction lessons to digital color (HD video)

15 technical screen cast lessons (HD video)

An instructor that replies your question within 24h

All project files and video clips used in this course

What will I learn?

You will learn a complete essential training of color correction and grading in Premiere Pro.

The philosophy of digital color

The functionality of every Lumetri tool

Read and use the measurement tools like the waveform and vector scope

Perform a color correction on an a bad shot

Create masks to color correct a specific area

Match the colors of different shots

For who is this course?

This course is aimed at beginners in the color correction/grading field. You are not required to have any pre-knowledge, however some basic experience with Premiere Pro will help a lot.

This course is not for experienced colorist.

Requirements

An installation of Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 or later

Mac or PC that can process full HD video clips to work with the attached materials

What is Lumetri?

Since the release of Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 we can now find the Lumetri engine inside Premiere itself. Before it was only part of the color correction program "Adobe Speedgrade". These lumetri tools have so much possibilities to make professional color corrections and grading that we don't need a dedicated program for it anymore.

What are the requirements?

A basic knowledge of Premiere Pro

An installation of Premiere Pro CC 2015 or beyond

What am I going to get from this course?

Use all the settings from the Lumetri Color window

Read the waveform and vectorscope

Correct the exposure and white balance

Create different looks

Match two different shots

Understand the basics of color philosophy

What is the target audience?

This course is for any Premiere Pro user that like to learn color correction

This course is not for experienced colorists

This course is not for Premiere Pro beginners. We advice to first follow our Premiere Pro Beginners course.

Colors can bring a certain emotion. If you watch the same shot each time with a different grading, you will feel a different emotion with it. This is the psychology of color grading. In this lecture we'll go over the very basics and see what kind of emotion lays at the base colors.

With the Premiere Pro update in June 2016 (CC 2015.3) we got a new feature that allows us to automatically chose the white balance. From the basic tools we now have a color picker to select a white point in the video. Lumetri will automatically set the correct white balance upon that selection.

When changing something you always want to measure what you're doing. In color correction we use the waveform to measure the exposure of a shot. In this lecture you will learn how to read and use the waveform tool.

Not only exposure can be measured, but also the saturation of the colors. Here it's also important that we keep track of how the colors look in our vectorscope. This lecture will show you how to read and use this tool.

LUT's are small files which can be loaded into Premiere Pro. These "small files" carry a bunch of information that will change the colors and exposure of your video in a certain way. IN this lecture you will learn how to use one of these LUT's

Under creative adjustments we can find several interesting tools like the saturation and vibrance. Both alter the saturation but in a different way. It's therefore important that these two controls are in balance.

Each video clip consists out of multiple colors. With the saturation curse we're able to increase or decrease the saturation of each individuel color. This can create interesting outcomes like the "sin-city" look.

The colors wheels are the most popular tools to make changes to your clip. Just like the basic tools and curves it can alter your saturation, hue and exposure. But for some situations these wheels are easier and faster in use. Find out how they work in this lecture.

With the HSL secondary we're able to select a specific color and manipulate that. This extra lesson covers a new feature form the June 2016 update. We'll take the tool into a real practice as well where we'll recreate the Sin City look.

In this lecture you will learn how to adjust the colors of one specific part in your shot. This could be the face of a certain person. But what if that persons moves around? No worries, you will also learn how to track that movement.

When moving the camera from one room to another, your colors could drastically change. At such a point you would like to animate your color grading to that it makes a transition from one room to another. In this lecture you'll learn two ways to do this.

We shoot an interview with two cameras, but when we start editing on them we see that the colors don't match. I think we've all been there. But luckily we can fix that with the Lumetri color tools. Learn in this lecture how to do that.

Performing a green-key is usually done to place your subject in another world (the new background). But it isn't always so easy to match your studio lighting with that of the background. In this lecture you will learn how to grade your shot so it matches your background.